A Jetta is a work of art? I suppose a double wide trailer is a mansion to you? Applebees is fine dining? Bud Light is a "Special Occasion" beer (For when Milwaukee's Best just isn't fancy enough)? OOOH I bet you think Paris Hilton is a smoking hot fox, eh? You're a tasteless idiot and I hope you choke on your 2 for 20 meal.Thank you for your time.

Bedliner takes 2-3 days to fully cure. I also bedlinered the subframe. I don't want to disturb it with any rough work, so I'm holding off until Saturday to put the subframe, tt control arms, and tt spindles in. But come sundown saturday, the motor will be back in the car. Tomorrow, climatronic box swap

Bedliner is great i really like the way it looks in an engine bay. We used to do that to the old Jeeps back in Brazil. When i pull my engine to do my delete/shave/wiretuck ill use something similar in texture but it is grey and white speckled.

Originally Posted by dubvinci

liking/appreciating static is one thing, but to think its better that airride is a whole nuther story....better ride and handling while driving, more drivability, and looks better when parked....you might as well say its better to always have a hard on...id rather deflate it when im not using it and then pump it up when its time to go....lol...

My R32 rep front bumper, bora skirts, and vortex rear showed up yesterday. I spent about 5 hours today hogging out the front bumper, getting it to clear the fmic. I had to chop almost 2" out of the lower part of the core support to drop the fmic inwards, and take almost 2" out of the bumper. I had to cut the bumper vents completely out and "jdm" the outside vents to get it to clear the IC piping. I don't mind because it doesn't look like complete ass, it was way cheaper than an OEM bumper, and I have an aux radiator and oil cooler rad to take up the open spaces.

Then I started on the downpipe. It's super-****ing goofy. I wish my 3" 304 was a little tighter radius. 1" tighter would have saved me so much trouble. You'll see when I snap some welded up pics tomorrow.

I should have the downpipe wraped up tonight/tomorrow morning. I still have to finish the turbo manifold. But I want to drop my jig off at a machine shop to get surfaced before I weld the runners to the flange. Also tomorrow, I'll have the hot-side IC piping finialized, the bumper final fit, and the haldex clearanced downpipe tied in to the non-awd 3" exhaust. AWD is not happening this summer, sorry guys. The car will be my DD for the rest of summer while I'm working on my R32 and Scirocco.

Friday, I'll take a trip out to summit to pick up the parts needed to tie the fuel lines in. Tonight, I need to place an order for AN heatercore fittings and a 4" cobra inlet and filter.

I have to ditch the surge tank and run the pump inline. I want a fluid tank for my windshield washer sprayers and can't fit the stock tank anywhere. Making one is more work than I feel like doing. A single 044 inline will still suffice for my power goals. But because of where the pumps going, I had to do something about the coolant orb. Not gonna fit.

Today was fun. Finished welding up the turbo manifold (save for the wastegate flange - had to have one shipped). Made the stainless braided fuel lines for the 044, but the pump still isn't here yet. I also ordered the wrong an fittings to weld to the stock rail (aluminum instead of SS), which is also on the way. I'll get pics of that **** when I pull the mani out of the car and get the pump in.

I also got the aux radiator and oil cooler rad mounted.

I welded a bracket to the stock VR6 aux radiator and mounted it to the core support under the headlight. It makes sense to use the core support instead of the body 'cause you gotta drain the coolant to pull the core support, so why not.

The oil cooler got two similar brackets, one goes to the stock smic mount hole, the other goes to a welded stud under the frame rail.

I gotta pick up some aluminum sheet tomorrow so I can weld up some duct shrouds for all the cooling devices.

Made the harness modular, and plugs in to the OE engine harness to receive power, throttle position, rpm, and vehicle speed. I didn't want to hardwire, in case I ever needed to pull harnesses.

And spend 8 hours yesterday working on a TT engine harness. I figured I had to tear apart the existing harness to relocate the throttle body, map, iat, and other stuff, so I might as well just start on a different harness. I had to relocate a few sensors, relocate the coil pack plugs, convert coil packs to ls2 ends, fix some cracked insulation, de-electrical tape, and re-loom the whole thing.

Another bad note, I found my tranny doesn't have 1 or 2. there's no clunking going in to gear. The gear selection fork must be broken. Thankfully I have another quattro 02m sitting here that I'll clean up this afternoon. I'll open this one up eventually to see what's going on inside it.